MONSON, Maine — A Monson man is hospitalized with a gunshot wound at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor after an altercation Thursday morning with two Piscataquis County sheriff’s deputies.
According to Sheriff John Goggin, Deputies Kyle Wilson and David Wilson attempted to serve a protection from harassment order around 10 a.m. on the man at his residence on Nana’s Drive, a small dirt road off Tenney Hill in Monson. His name isn’t being released yet because family members haven’t been notified, said the sheriff.
“They knocked on the door, he responded and they explained why they were there,” Goggin said. “He then slammed the door in their face.”
The sheriff said the deputies decided to “back off” for the moment and started walking up the path to the driveway. “When they got about 20 or 30 yards away, the door opened again and he stepped out with a rifle in his hand and started loading it,” Goggin said.
The deputies ordered him to drop the weapon, but he reportedly pointed it directly at the officers. One of the officers fired a single shot that passed through the subject’s rib cage and hit him in the arm, the sheriff said. “He dropped the weapon, but when the deputies started walking toward him, he acted as if he was going to pick it up again. Then the officer hit with him a Taser,” Goggin said
The man was first taken to Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft and transferred to EMMC. “As far as I can tell, he’s going to be all right,” Goggin said.
Goggin added that until Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Department only had “one insignificant run-in with him about five or six years ago. But since Wednesday, he had threatened people in the Monson town office, the Fire Department and some of his neighbors.”
The investigation has been turned over to the Maine attorney general’s office, which routinely handles officer-related shootings.
Goggin said that they’ve already conducted some interviews and more information about the incident, including the subject’s name, will be available Friday.
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